You can say no to your child
Do you often find yourself say yes to your child to avoid tantrums?
You can say NO to your child whenever you think it’s necessary, it will do them good. In fact, you help them to learn to deal with disappointment, how to prioritize and how to strike a balance between wants and needs, work and play. These are certainly vital skills to have in the real world when they grow up, more precious than the gold coin orOakley watches you leave behind for them.
We all have seen children making a scene at the toy store or grocery store, when they know their parents will succumb to their demands out of embarrassment. So, for your children’s good and for your own sanity, do not be afraid to say: “NO, and it means NO”! It won’t make you a bad mommy or bad daddy, it makes you a better one.
Filed under Parenting | Comment (0)Beginner, emergent and fluent readers
One of the most valuable skills one can acquired through life is the ability of self learning. The foundation of self learning is the ability to read independently and analytically.
Most children do not just start reading overnight, it’s a gradual process as they acquire certain set of skill. These skills include:
(1) Symbolic representations
-Understanding that marks on a page represent letters and words
(2) Phonemic awareness
-understand that words are made up of smaller sounds which are called phonograms
(3)Vocabulary development
- have a large pool of words and know how to use them
Reading aloud to your child at home is the best thing you can do to help him or her learn to read independently. You need to read to your child as often as possible, even though he might read independently yet. Once children have acquired the above skills, they will sooner or later burst into reading and develop from an emergent reader to be a fluent reader who can read independently.
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